Tifinagh picker notes/help

This Unicode character picker allows you to produce or analyse runs of Tifinagh text. Character pickers are especially useful for people who don't know a script well, as characters are displayed in ways that aid identification.

About the chart

Controls above the text area

Transliterate.Converts the contents of the text area to a Latin transliteration that provides a single correspondence between each Tifinagh symbol and a Latin symbol. It doesn't lead to a good phonetic transcription, but the process is reversible (unlike most phonetic transcriptions).

The algorithm generates Tifinagh text in line with a transcription used in particular for northern Berber transcriptions of Neo-Tifinagh. This still needs a little refinement (suggestions welcome).

Input aids

IPA to Tifinagh. Displays a panel of lowercase phonetic symbols. As you click on them the picker generates Tifinagh text in line with some rough phonetic principles. Think of this as a way to speed things up, rather than a foolproof system.